http://babyboomerlibrarian.blogspot.com/2005/11/academic-libraries-and-library-20.html From Bill Drew comes an update to a post he wrote in November 2005. Bill created the Library 2.0 ning network and notes: Library 2.0 is not always about replacing more traditional services. It is about extending those services into new areas and starting new ones. It is not change for the sake of change.
Yearly Archives: 2007
564 posts
Via http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2007/03/25/finding_time_at_penn_state.html: Jenny posts: Otherwise known as “losing time at Penn State” trying to use the library’s online resources. What a great illustration of the barriers our users face, and not just at Penn State or at academic libraries. This is the video Ellysa Stern Cahoy showed during the Next Gen Librarians panel at last week’s CIC Conference.
Love it! And thanks to Nicole for tagging me. Allow me to add 5 blogs I read beyond the Biblioblogosphere, skipping over trashy celebrity gossip blogs I just might glance at..on occassion…sometimes… The Copy Blogger: http://www.copyblogger.com/ Insights, tips and “how to’s” for making your blog a standout. Great stuff for librarians writing blog posts for their libraries to consider. The Church of the Customer Blog: http://www.churchofthecustomer.com/blog/ Customer evangelists. Companies on the Cluetrain. This blog is fascinating. It was here I found out about the Kohl’s kerfuffle that I use in tech trend talks. A useful blog that can get readers […]
remoteImage.jpg Originally uploaded by heyjudegallery. Via HeyJude…. fascinating stuff. http://www.techlearning.com/blog/2007/03/a_problem_with_blogs.php If you are blogging with your students, or you are thinking of blogging with your students, I encourage you to not think of blogs as a writing assignment, but instead to look at them as conversations. Conversations that can give you both feedback about a lesson, or continue a conversation well after a lesson has ended. Blogging brings a new dimension to the classroom. You cannot blog and not change the structure of your classroom. Two great examples of this are Mark Ahlness and Clarence Fisher, both of whom have […]
Michael Stephens :: Williamsburg, VA Originally uploaded by va.donna. I had a great day in Williamsburg, VA on Friday. Here’s a shout out to all the folks who attended!
The folks at Allen County Public Library asked their patrons to take photos on a specific day and then send them in. The created a collection called “A Day in Allen County” for their library Flickr presence. http://flickr.com/photos/acplinfo/sets/72157600001135158/ Hey libraries – you can do this too! How about: A Day in ____________ A Day at the Library (or branch or department) A Day on Campus etc.
Via the Hacking NetFlix Blog: http://www.hackingnetflix.com/2007/03/netflix_brookly.html In an interview with The Post, Vitali said the library has also reached out to Netflix to serve as a provider of DVDs and videos. “What we want to do is work with Netflix and really get that inventory together, really use Netflix as the delivery mechanism,” Vitali said. “We’re getting some good vibrations back. Nothing formal has been settled. What’s really exciting is – it’s my understanding – really the first of its kind, a model for that kind of corporate partnership.” Watch how this deal plays out closely. If it goes through, […]
Via Joyce Valenza’s blog: Wow – but this bit of serendipitous synchronicity makes it all make wonderful sense. http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/future/changingroles.htm Changing Roles of Academic and Research Libraries Making Sense of a Messy Future There are three essential actions libraries must take to achieve the necessary transformation and remain vital forces on campus in the years ahead: First, libraries must evolve from institutions perceived primarily as the domain of the book to institutions that users clearly perceive as providing pathways to high-quality information in a variety of media and information sources. Second, the culture of libraries and their staff must proceed beyond […]
So glad to see Brian S. Matthews in the current class of M&S. While I am on this kick pondering the role of the academic library, it was nice to catch this in his profile: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6423439.html We can and should lure students in with library spaces designed for patrons, not librarians, Mathews says. On his blog, The Ubiquitous Librarian, he describes a campus study that analyzed spaces nonlibrary users preferred for studying, spaces that combined “refreshments, aesthetics, friends, comfort, cleanliness, diversions, and unpredictability.” Library renovations were accordingly aimed at allowing sociability, playfulness, and a recharging of mental batteries. Mathews is […]
Mills Learning Commons is an active, student-centered learning space that integrates traditional and emerging scholarly resources, information technology, expert help, instruction, and collaborative and individual study space. Congratulations to the folks at Mills Library at McMaster University for winning the McMaster Student Union’s Rudy Heinzl Award of Excellence for their redesigned Learning Commons. Read all about it at the library blog, including this: It is especially gratifying to receive this award since it comes from the students themselves. I visited the library and walked through the commons when I was on campus in January and it was ALIVE with students […]